Episode 600: Local Hero (1983)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Summary

It’s the 600th episode of The Projection Booth and we’re celebrating with a special episode all about Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero. Released in 1983, the film stars Peter Riegert as MacIntyre, a corporate exec who’s really more of a Telex man but gets sent to Scotland by his boss, Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster), to secure needed land for the Knox oil corporation.

Rob St. Mary and Jonathan Melville (author of Local Hero: Making a Scottish Classic) join Mike to discuss the film while Peter Riegert talks about his role in the film.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.6	Everyone pretend podcasting as if boring.
0:20.5	Shut it off.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:27.1	Oh! There is a place
0:43.7	With the northern lights transform the sky
0:47.7	Anything out of the ordinary, you telephone me
0:51.4	Night a day.
0:53.2	Modern mermaids spring from the sea.
0:57.6	What's the most amazing thing you ever found?
1:00.2	Impossible to say.
1:02.2	See, there's something amazing every two or three weeks.
1:07.5	The land breathes with an ancient mystery.
1:11.6	Where are we?
1:13.6	And all who witness its wonders come to believe in its magic.
1:20.6	What about the sky?
1:22.6	Sky, sir, is amazing.
1:24.6	I wish you could see it. I wish I could describe it to you just like I'm seeing it.
1:29.3	This is the new film from the producer of Chariots of Fire.
1:34.3	Local Hero
1:36.3	The survey teams have found just about the only suitable day on the entire coast.
1:41.3	I think we should get a negotiator on the side right away.
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